You were my time piece,one hand on my shoulder, the otherrooting aroundin my shirt. Even half asleepyour third eye was always on the clock.A year in, you're still a stickler:just enough time to shower, just enoughto eat so I can feedyou again: Ticktock, mummy. Tick tock.

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First of all, I'm concerned that you would post my work without notifying me.

Your format makes it appear that people submit their work but I had never heard of your magazine and probably wouldn't have known that you had cut and pasted material from my blog if it hadn't come up in google alerts.

I don't really know what to say - the 'mistake' you mention above seems unlikely because my work appears in your last issue without your having contacted me.

On the one hand, I'm not wild about copyright fascism (happy to embed Youtube videos), I'm all for poetry dissemination and I like your taste.

On the other hand.... Well, as Ariel points out, you list us as contributors and we're not. It seems deceptive.

And there are other reasons it's problematic. The versions of poems I put on my blog usually really are drafts. Sometimes I take them down soon afterwards (one of the ones you have here was only up for a couple of days - and you've omitted my citation of its source material!). Often I offer later versions to publishers, considering them unpublished or saying they have been published on a personal blog. In any case, I'm in control of my decisions around this - which is what I expect until I offer work for publication.

And I'm wondering how many of your 'contributors' are unaware their work appears here. I hope not too many.

I am not a "contributor" to your self-promoting blog. You have never had any contact with me whatsoever, so there is no reasonable possibility that you thought you had "gotten my OK to publish". The original publication on Masthead (to which it would have been courteous of you to link) notes that "Copyright remains with contributors. All rights are reserved." - do you find this unclear?

Lastly, given that with every single one of the poems you lifted from there, you have altered the lineation, can you be surprised that I am requesting you, more politely that you perhaps deserve, to remove those poems from your blog at once, and never to attempt to republish my work again?

You remark that "like most people [you] make mistakes". You appear to be particularly, not to say systematically, error-prone.

When I first wrote, I had no way of knowing if the mistakes made with me were one-offs or part of a larger pattern. As the comments that followed our exchange have proved, the latter was the case. As such, I would request that you remove my poems from your site.

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I spent much of the 80s working as a freelance photographer in Europe. I returned to America in 1990. Then in 1995, I made a life-long dream come true when I traveled around the world for eight glorious months. Instead of taking pictures, I kept a journal, which eventually led me to what I feel is my "true calling". My poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary magazines both in print and on the web but I still peddle my time as a private tutor, which is not as bad as it sounds. Fact is, I no longer want to live on an iceberg, which is a good thing since they seem to be disappearing.